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Dr. Clyde N. Wilson

Remembering

5/27/2022

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A trusted friend recently asked if I had seen the film “The Siege of Ruby Ridge.”  I had not before but took the opportunity to do so.  Considering that Hollywood is a lie factory, the film seems fairly honest, as far as one can tell.

Let’s always remember the facts.  Federal agents, in a clear case of entrapment, made a charge against Randy Weaver in an attempt to coerce him to testify against others, which he refused.  He failed to comply with an  order to appear in federal court, knowing that he would be imprisoned or coerced.

Six Federal marshals, heavily armed and in camo and body armor, invaded the Weaver’s land.  The did not announce themselves as law officers on legitimate duty.  One agent blew a hole in the back of the Weavers’ 14-year-old son  as he was retreating.  A friend living with the Weavers killed the shooter. 

The death of a federal officer incited even more brutal reprisal.  The Weaver homestead was soon surrounded and besieged by 200  “law officers”  from six different agencies, with armoured vehicles.  Federal officials changed the rules of engagement to allow their people to kill on sight.  A foreign mercenary, hired and trained by the U.S. government, firing from concealment, murdered Vicki Weaver. 

Remember:  Mrs. Weaver, an American woman against whom there were no charges, was standing in the doorway of her home holding her baby when she was murdered by the U.S. government.  It is hard to imagine any more flagrant abuse of citizens by federal power. In a sane and free  society Vicki Weaver would have a monument and a commemorative postage stamp.  In later court testimony, the assassin seemed satisfied with his act.

The siege continued for a week.   Besieged were Randy Weaver and his friend, both wounded, and three little girls, one an infant.  The besieged finally surrendered and Weaver was later exonerated in court.  None of the federal murderers received any punishment.

Along with the later murders by federal agents  at Waco, the truth ought to have sunk in.  Federal agents can freely kill innocent people if the people have been demonized by the press as right wing.  If you are a normal American, an unwoke and disobedient  “deplorable” as Hillary Clinton put it, or one of Obama’s contemptible people who cling to their guns and Bibles, remember you are fair game.

The Library of Congress sells reproductions of the “three most important” American historical documents: The Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Emancipation Proclamation.  The first two are about self-government of the people.  The third is an unconstitutional executive order designed to encourage murder of Americans who did not obey federal power under the Republican party.  It did not free a single person.
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Joe Johnson
5/27/2022 05:48:58 pm

The vile events that happened at ruby ridge was a classic example of what the late Sam Francis called anarcho-tyranny.

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Joe Johnson
5/27/2022 07:14:59 pm

Vicky Weaver goes almost forgotten, while a low life thug who dies from a drug overdose while struggling with cops is honored. What a morally bankrupt society in which live.

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Walt Garlington
5/28/2022 02:59:45 am

It's worse, though: The police are perfectly willing to kill innocent, peaceful folks, but they refuse to touch a crazed gunman in an elementary school.

https://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/police-failure-in-uvalde/

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Robert
5/29/2022 08:32:52 am

In a nation that was proud of hard work, strong families, close-knit communities, and our faith in God, too many of us now tend to worship self-indulgence and consumption. Human identity is no longer defined by what one does, but by what one owns. But we’ve discovered that owning things and consuming things does not satisfy our longing for meaning. We’ve learned that piling up material goods cannot fill the emptiness of lives which have no confidence or purpose.
The symptoms of this crisis of the American spirit are all around us. For the first time in the history of our country a majority of our people believe that the next five years will be worse than the past five years. Two-thirds of our people do not even vote. The productivity of American workers is actually dropping, and the willingness of Americans to save for the future has fallen below that of all other people in the Western world.”

Jimmy Carter identified the problem accurately. Weaver’s retreat into the hills with his wife and family from all the political proposals and hyper blather of desperate times was probably much closer to a honest man’s solution than anything Carter, or any subsequent politician since Carter, has proposed.

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H. V. Traywick, Jr. link
5/30/2022 05:13:06 am

Lesson: Do not cross the totalitarian, globalist Deep State. The Founders' attempt at offering a government of limited power in 1788 was destroyed in 1865, and the evidence and memory of it - the totalitarian, globalist Deep State's worst nightmare - is being obliterated. Keep your powder dry.

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Gregory Fogg
5/30/2022 07:33:38 am

Lon Horiuchi, the assassin who murdered Vicki Weaver, was not a foreign mercenary, but a West Point graduate, class of 1976. He was also present at the Branch Dravidian massacre in Waco.

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Clyde Wilson
5/30/2022 03:09:45 pm

Like I said, the govt. sent a foreign mercenary to murder an innocent AMERICAN woman in her own home, who was guilty of nothing except being disliked by the media and govt, Like any foreign mercenary the murderer showed no apology or regret at killing an AMERICAN. That was under a Republican president. It is interesting to note that under the next, Democrat, president, the killer was sent to take part in the massacre of innocent AMERICAN children at a church building in Waco.

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Anthony Powell
6/1/2022 06:43:53 am

Dr Wilson, I'm thinking somewhere on an FBI employment application is the following question: Would you have qualms about shooting an unarmed American, or firebombing or razing any American's residence? If answering 'yes', you should consider a different career path.
Lon Horiuchi and the other FBI thugs obviously had no qualms. How these killers in what the late William Grigg termed 'government-issued costumes' sleep well at night is beyond me. Lon Horiuchi got Vicki Weaver in his scope's sight, and shot her as casually as I would shoot a deer. I suppose 160 years ago Horiuchi would have been a sniper in the employ of Abraham Lincoln.

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Gregory Fogg
5/31/2022 09:00:05 am

I did not intend to convey the impression that I condoned Horiuchi's actions. I was appalled and enraged by the federal government's handling of the incidents at Ruby Ridge and Waco.

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Clyde Wilson
6/1/2022 04:24:50 am

I understand, Mr. Fogg

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    Clyde Wilson is a distinguished Professor Emeritus of History at the University of South Carolina He is the author or editor of over thirty books and published over 600 articles, essays and reviews

    Dr. Wilson is also is co-publisher of Shotwell Publishing, a source  for unreconstructed Southern books. 

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